Extracting project-relevant units from a large TM | If it matters, TM strategies

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Extracting project-relevant units from a large TM
Poster: Philippe Locquet
Post title: If it matters, TM strategies

If you have the entire TM connected to the current document you are translating, it won't matter much, your CAT will check matches against the TM. The only difference will be with performance, depending on the CAT, TM system and computer hardware you may experience a slight lag when checking fuzzy for a segment or doing a concordance search.

Now, if you want to get specific suggestions and not see matches with a different language style/vocabulary there is not really a tool to help you do this after the fact (only concordance will help).
If you remember the dates when other relevant projects were translated, you could filter and extract in your TM based on these dates.

To avoid such problems, you can change your TM strategy from Big Momma to project specific separated TMs.
Another option is to use specific custom attributes. These can be used at a later point to perform specific extractions.

Hope this helps